Nguyen Khuyen High School THE FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION Name :________________ Subject : English 11 Class : 11A Code: Room: Duration : 60 minutes I / LISTENING: Listen the passage twice and fill in the blanks with the words you hear (1 mark ) I’ve known James for 25 years. We first when he moved to my town. He went to a different school but we became friends he lived nextdoor to me. We’ve each other since then, but we haven’t kept in touch all that time … We lost contact each other when I moved to Scotland in the 1970s for my job … I didn’t go to Jame’s but he came to mine. II/ PRONUNCIATION (1 mark ) A. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from those (0,5 mark ) 1. A. change B. children C. machine D. church 2.A. crooked B. laughed C. watched D. clapped B. Circle the word whose stress is on the first syllable. (0,5 mark ) 1. A. opportunity B. competition C. activity D. population 2. A. increase B. figure C. remote D. affect III/ GRAMMAR (3,5 marks ) A . Supply the correct form of the verb in the bracket.( 2 marks ) 1. “Remember to bring the raincoat with you.”, Daisy’s father said to her. Daisy’s father reminded 2. Susan said; “If I were you, I would take a taxi, Richard.” Susan advised 3. Lisa said :“I am sorry. I told a lie.” Lisa apologized 4. “ It was very nice of you to visit me. Thank you,” Mrs Clinton said to Jack Mrs Clinton thanked B. Choose the best answer to complete the following sentences ( 1,5 marks ) 1. Why weren’t we permitted _______ the house? A. entering B. to enter C. enter D. entered 2. Yesterday when I to his house, he the exercises A. come/ is writing B. come/ was writing A. was coming/ wrote A. came/ was writing 3. Yesterday, the bus when we arrived. A. had left B. has left C. was leaving D. leaves 4. Would you consider _____________ your share of the company? A. sell B. selling C. to sell D. to be sold 5. Have you ever _______ English to a native speaker? A. speak B. spoke C. speaking D. spoken 6. She expected ________ to the principal. A. to introduce B. being introduced C. to be introduced D. being introduced IV/ Vocabulary: Choose the best answer. (0,5 mark ) 1. Christmas is a good _______ for the family gathering. A. party B. anniversary C. occasion D. way 2. Tomorrow is your birthday. So you need to _____ your living room. A. celebrate B. decorate C. blow out D. gather V/ Error identification ( 1 mark ) 1. John lived New York since 1960 to 1975, but he is now living in Detroit. A B C D 2. They speak English well because they practice speak it every day. A B C D 3. If we met him yesterday, we would have invited him to the party. A B C D 4. I heard someone fell outside last night. A B C D VI. READING: Read the passage and choose the best answer to each question.( 2 marks ) Independence Day in the United States is observed annually on the Fourth of July. For most communities throughout the nation, the traditional celebration includes parades down the main streets, picnics with hot dogs and lemonade, and, of course, a fireworks display at night. In some towns across the country, however, special events are planned in honor of the occasion. In Bristol, Rhode Island, fire engine teams from communities throughout New England compete in a contest to squirt water from their fire hoses. Flagstaff, Arizona hosts a huge three-day powwow, including a rodeo, for twenty Native American tribes. The annual Eskimo games with traditional kayak races are held in Kotzebue, Alaska. Two auto races are always scheduled for the Fourth, including a four-hundred-mile stock car event at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona, Florida, and an annual auto race up the fourteen-thousand-foot precipice at Pike’s Peak in Colorado. Several small towns celebrate in other unique ways. Hannibal, Missouri, the hometown of Mark Twain, invites the children to participate in a fence-painting contest, reenacting a scene from Twain’s novel Tom Sawyer. Lititz, Pennsylvania congregates in the Lititz Springs Park to light thousands of candles and arrange them in various shapes and images. In Ontario, California, the townspeople combine the traditional with the unusual by setting up tables along Euclid Avenue for what they describe as “the biggest picnic table in the world”. In this way, everyone in town has a front-row seat for the two-mile parade. 1. With which of the following topics is the passage primarily concerned? A. Traditional celebrations for the Fourth of July. B. Holidays in the United States C. The origin of Independence Day D. Small towns in America. 2. How is Independence Day observed in Ontario, California? A. By hosting a powwow and rodeo B.By sponsoring a stock car event. C.By squirting water from fire hoses D.By setting up tables along the parade route. 3. The word “ them ” in paragraph 2 refers to A.Shapes B. candles C. children D. images 4. It can be inferred from the passage that A.the Fourth of July is celebrated in Canada as well as in the United States B.towns in the United States celebrate July Fourth in different ways because of their regional customs C.although fireworks are not legal, they are displayed on July Fourth. D.the Fourth of July is not celebrated in large cities in the United States. VII. Write the sentence, using the given cues .(1 mark) 1/ If / I / be / you , / I would / work / that company. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2/ Kumquat trees are / popular / both / the North / in the the South / of Vietnam. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3/ People / not / aware / the problem /of overpopulation ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4/ I like her because she /always help / people without /think /of her own benefit . ………………………………………………………………………………………………… ANSWER KEYS I. Listening .(1 mark) 1. met 2. because 3. known 4. wedding II. Phonetics .(1 mark) 1. C 2. A 1. C 4. B III. Grammar .(3,5 mark) A. (2 mark)1. Daisy’s father reminded her to bring the raincoat with her 2. Susan advisedRichard to take a taxi 3. Lisa apologized for telling a lie 4. Mrs Clinton thanked Jack for visiting her B. .(1,5 mark)1. B 2. D 3. A 4. B 5.D 6. C IV. vocabulary .(0,5 mark) 1. C 2. B V. Error Identification .(1 mark) 1.B 2.D 3. A 4.C VI. Reading .(2 mark) 1. A 2.D 3.B 4.B VII. Writing .(1 mark) 1/ If I were you , I would work for that company. 5/ Kumquat trees are popular both in the North and in the the South of Vietnam. 6/ People are not aware of the problem of overpopulation 7/ I like her because she always helps people without thinking of her own benefit . . Avenue for what they describe as “the biggest picnic table in the world”. In this way, everyone in town has a front-row seat for the two-mile parade. 1 ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4/ I like her because she /always help / people without /think /of her own benefit . ………………………………………………………………………………………………… ANSWER